Early Friday morning, Laura crossed Arkansas and headed toward southeast Missouri as a tropical depression with winds of 35mph. In preparation for the storm, Arkansas deployed search and rescue teams along with members of the National Guard to help. All day long, the storm will drive across Kentucky and continue …
Read More »Hubble Unveils Andromeda’s Halo – “A Colossal Shell Inside a Shell”
Posted on 27 Aug 2020 in Astronomy, Science “The sign of our extinction would be nothing more than a game flying in the sky for a second,” said film director Stanley Kubrick, referring to an image of the destruction of our planet to an alien observer in the Andromeda Galaxy, …
Read More »Bright satellites in the thousands can affect future discoveries of space
This clutter of the sky includes satellite constellations currently orbiting the Earth, such as SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, and thousands of potential future satellite constellations that may be launched in the future. It is estimated that 107,000 orbit satellites will be launched in the coming decades. The astronomical community was concerned …
Read More »Do you need to catch the flu now?
With the pandemic still in full swing, health officials are advising people to make a flu vaccine a top priority this year. Influenza activity usually occurs between December and February, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but influenza activity can last as late as May. Experts …
Read More »Covid-19 study finds that children are at low risk for death and serious illness
Pediatricians described the findings as reassuring, as children accounted for less than 1% of coronavirus cases in England, Wales and Scotland; and only 1% of those children died, the researchers report. The researchers – from various UK institutions – analyzed data on 651 Covid-19 patients under the age of 19 …
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